Chair of Board

Linda Keen is a corporate director of several boards including the Ottawa Heart Institute and a past board member of the Canadian Light Source. She is a member of the Mirror Committee of the ISO Governance Group. Her background includes science and laboratory executive roles including the Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission, the Metals and Minerals Sector of Natural Resources Canada and in Agriculture Canada. She holds a Bachelor of Science in Chemistry and a Master of Science (interdisciplinary) in Agriculture from the University of Alberta plus a designation as a Certified Corporate Director, C. Dir., designation from the DeGroote School of Management at McMaster University. 

Appointed March 2021 as Board Director and as Chair April 2022.  Reappointed October 2024 as Board Director and as Chair.

Member of the Board

Sandy is the Chief Finance Officer of Ocean Networks Canada in Victoria. She is responsible for ONC’s finances, including financial administration, budget planning, audits, and financial statements, as well as supervision of the finance team.  She is involved in developing and ensuring the long-term financial health of ONC, including financial risk and leadership of financial strategy.  Sandy worked in accounting positions in the private sector before joining the University of Victoria in 1995, first as the Director of Research Accounting and then as Director of Accounting Services, before moving to ONC in 2019.  Sandy possesses a Chartered Professional Accounting designation and has a BA (honours with distinction) and an MA in Art History from the University of a Victoria.

Appointed June 2020, reappointed March 2023

Member of the Board

Mark Boland is a Professor, Department of Physics and Engineering Physics, at the University of Saskatchewan and Machine Director at the Canadian Light Source in Saskatoon since 2017. As a member of the CLS executive team, he is responsible for the ongoing Synchrotron machine operations. Previously, he was a Principal Accelerator Physicist at the Australian Synchrotron, Melbourne, Australia, a STINT Post doctoral Fellow, Lund University, Sweden, and a Fulbright Research Fellow at Stanford University. He possesses a B.Sc.(honours) and a Ph.D., from the University of Melbourne, Australia.

Appointed October 2021, reappointed December 2024

Member of the Board

Jack is an Emeritus Professor in the Anthropology Department at the University of Alberta. His research interests lie in Plains, Subarctic, Great Basin and Northeast Asian prehistory, archaeological theory, Paleoindian studies and Public Archaeology. He previously served with the Archaeological Survey of Alberta, Royal Alberta Museum and the Historic Resource Management Branch, serving as Alberta’s Provincial Archaeologist. He possesses a Bachelor of Arts from the University of Saskatchewan, Master of Arts from the University of Alberta, and Ph.D. from the University of Michigan.

Appointed March 2022

Member of the Board

Laurie Swami is the President and CEO of the Nuclear Waste Management Organization. She is responsible for implementing Canada’s plan for the long-term management of used nuclear fuel. Ms. Swami previously served as Senior Vice-President of Decommissioning and Nuclear Waste Management at Ontario Power Generation (OPG). She began her career at OPG in 1986 and held various roles with increasing responsibility in the Nuclear Division. She holds a B.Sc. In Engineering Chemistry from Queen’s University and an MBA from the Schulich School of Business.

Appointed March 2022

Member of the Board and Member of the Finance and Audit Committee

Suzanne Dionne CPA-CGA is a certified professional accountant.  Since 2023, she has served as an external member of the AEL National Facility Finance and Audit Committee, providing valuable oversight.  She was appointed as a Board member in October 2024 and will continue to serve on the Finance and Audit Committee.   In the past, she has held executive leadership positions in the Canadian health system.  From 2018 until recently, she was the Senior Vice-President, Finance and Administration, for the University of Ottawa Heart Institute. Prior to that, she served as the CFO/CIO of the Cornwall Community Hospital and as a Senior Director of Health Systems Accountability for the Champlain Local Health Integration Network. She holds a Bachelor of Science in Kinanthropology from the University of Ottawa and further education in Health Care Leadership and Information. Her studies resulted in her designation as a Certified General Account. 
 

Appointed October 2024

Member of the Board

Daniele Pinti is a Full Professor at the Université du Québec à Montréal and has been the Director of the Fonds de Recherche du Québec Geotop cluster since 2014. He holds an M.Sc. in Geology from the University of Rome and a Ph.D. in Noble Gas Geochemistry from Université de Paris 6.  His research focuses on the sources and residence times of crustal fluids, including groundwater and hydrocarbons, using noble gases, tritium, and radiocarbon as tracers.  From 1998 to 2004, he was an Assistant Professor at the University of Paris SUD, specializing in nitrogen isotopes at the University of Osaka.  Dr. Pinti serves on numerous national and international review panels and was Co-Editor-in-Chief of the Geochemical Journal.

Appointed December 2024

Member of ISAC

Timothy Jull is a senior research scientist with the Department of Geosciences at the University of Arizona. He also is director of the UA's Accelerator Mass Spectrometer Laboratory, addressing a variety of problems in geochemistry, geophysics, and archaeology. He obtained a Bachelor`s degree in chemistry at the University of British Columbia and in geochemistry at the University of Bristol. He did postdoctoral studies at Bristol, the University of Cambridge, and the Max-Planck-Institut für Chemie in Mainz, Germany.

Appointed May 2018

Member of ISAC

Elena Chamizo is a Research Scientist supporting Research and Teaching at the Centro Nacional de Aceleradores (CNA, Seville, Spain).  She received her Ph.D. in Sciences at the University of Seville in 2009. In 2005, the first multi-elemental 1 MV AMS system designed and manufactured by HVEE, was installed at the CNA. Since then, she has worked full-time at this facility, consolidating a research line on the analysis of actinides radionuclides (_²³³U, _²³⁶U, _²³⁷Np, _²³⁹Pu, _²⁴⁰Pu, _²⁴¹Pu), including the development of radiochemical methods, and AMS analysis in applied fields.  

Appointed February 2023

Member of ISAC

Keith Fifield holds a Professor Emeritus position in the Department of Nuclear Physics, at the Australian National University. He received his PhD in Nuclear Physics from University of Pennsylvania in 1973 and has held research positions in nuclear physics laboratories at the universities of Pennsylvania, Oxford, and ANU. In 1986, he began to develop the new technique of accelerator mass spectrometry (AMS) at the ANU’s 14UD Heavy-Ion Accelerator Facility. This became a full-time occupation from 1991. Since then, Keith has been at the forefront of innovation in both the methods and application of the technique and is advisor to AMS labs in Argentina, Brazil, Canada, India, Italy, USA, and Australia.

Appointed February 2023

Member of ISAC

Ate Visser is a Research Scientist at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, California. He obtained his Ph.D. in Physical Geography from the University of Utrecht, The Netherlands, followed by an appointment as a Research Scientist in Deltares, the Netherlands and a postdoctoral fellowship at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. His research focuses on understanding hydrological processes in the context of climate change adaptation and resilience. He combines advanced isotopic tracers with numerical models to provide new perspectives on research questions in terrestrial hydrology and biogeochemistry.

Appointed August 2024 

Member of ISAC

Dr. D. Kip Solomon is a professor at the University of Utah, holding the Brown Presidential Chair and serving as Interim Chair of Geology and Geophysics. He earned a Ph.D. in Earth Sciences from the University of Waterloo and has extensive experience at Oak Ridge National Laboratory. His expertise includes environmental tracers for evaluating groundwater flow and solute transport, with a focus on dissolved gases like helium-3 and CFCs. Solomon has delivered over 50 lectures globally and authored over 160 publications, contributing significantly to groundwater research and sustainability.

Appointed January 2025

Member of ISAC

Mark Roberts is an Oceanographer Emeritus and Emeritus Research Scholar at the National Ocean Sciences AMS Facility, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole, MA. He received his Ph.D. from Duke University in 1988. He has held positions at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, and the University of Georgia. Over the course of his career, he has overseen the design, construction, and operation of several AMS and ion microprobe systems. Mark has also collaborated with Atomic Energy of Canada (Chalk River) to design and implement a noble gas-accepting ion source at Woods Hole for ¹⁴C AMS.

Appointed March 2025